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Q: Photos: can't "Show Referenced File in Finder"

When I select a photo and want to make a change to the original, there is an item in the "File" menu called "Show Referenced File in Finder". This menu item is always greyed out. What's it there for if it never works?

Posted on Apr 13, 2015 7:47 AM

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Q: Photos: can't "Show Referenced File in Finder"

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  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Apr 13, 2015 9:17 AM in response to jayar
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    Apr 13, 2015 9:17 AM in response to jayar
    This menu item is always greyed out. What's it there for if it never works?

    It will work, if you have selected a photo, where the original image file has not been imported into the Photos Library but is in the original location outside your Photos library. These reference original files can be revealed in the Finder, but not the original of photos, that are managed by Photos inside the Photos library.

     

    When I select a photo and want to make a change to the original,

    Manual changes to the original image files are not supported in Photos. This can corrupt the Photos library.

    Make all edits using Photos's Edit panel.

  • by Winston Churchill,Helpful

    Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Apr 13, 2015 9:17 AM in response to jayar
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    Apr 13, 2015 9:17 AM in response to jayar

    It's for referenced photos. If you don't have any you won't be able to use it. If you want to use referenced files you will need to turn off the preference to copy to your library.

  • by locuta,

    locuta locuta Apr 27, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Winston Churchill
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    Apr 27, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Winston Churchill

    Hi, I also have the same problem.

    I bought a new MacBook Air and now I have all kinds of trouble unfortunately. I had a time machine backup on an external HD. So I opened the new Macbook, chose to use the backup from the HD, and then most things worked immediately. My two biggest problems are unrelated to each other. First the issue that is discussed in this group:

     

    After I imported all my stuff from the time machine backup, my MacBook says I can't open iPhoto anymore because it's not compatible with Yosemite. I notice that I can access my photos through the Photos app, which I've never seen before. However, they can't be opened in Finder, which is a little annoying, because I have 13.000 photos and 368 videos, and I want to select all videos and copy them to a USB-stick for my parents... I can't even easily locate them now. Unless I scroll through ALL 13.000 files... Would my problem be solved by 'fixing' iPhoto somehow?

     

    My other problem is that I also transferred my mails to Mail of course (with the time machine backup). Seemed to work. I have a sent-mail folder on IMAP, and I have one 'On My Mac', which is locally stored. That last folder had 97.000 e-mails. Full archive since 2003. I opened it in Mail, worked fined, until suddenly the folder was empty. I didn't do anything: I was reading an e-mail and boom... all gone... It's the only folder that's empty now. If I go to time machine to get a back up back, it loads all messages (which I can see in time machine then), but when I click restore, nothing happens. Well... yeah... the screen freezes... only cmd option escape gets me out of the screen... how can I fix this..?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 27, 2015 12:42 PM in response to locuta
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    Apr 27, 2015 12:42 PM in response to locuta
    After I imported all my stuff from the time machine backup, my MacBook says I can't open iPhoto anymore because it's not compatible with Yosemite. I notice that I can access my photos through the Photos app, which I've never seen before. However, they can't be opened in Finder, which is a little annoying, because I have 13.000 photos and 368 videos, and I want to select all videos and copy them to a USB-stick for my parents... I can't even easily locate them now. Unless I scroll through ALL 13.000 files... Would my problem be solved by 'fixing' iPhoto somehow?

     

    This is easy, and you do it in exactly the same way as you would in iPhoto.

     

    First find all the videos:

     

    Easy: they're all in the Video Album in the Side bar (you can enable the sidebar in the View menu.

     

    Then Export them

     

    File -> Export -> Export unmodified Original.

     

    I would suggest that you export to a folder on the desktop and then copy that to the flash drive.

  • by locuta,

    locuta locuta Apr 27, 2015 12:47 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    Apr 27, 2015 12:47 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Oh wow... that's a really easy answer, and it works... perfect, thanks!!!!

    One perhaps stupid question (but very relevant for me and I really don;t know): if I export them to a folder in Finder somewhere, and it's -let's say 20GB-, will the usage of my storage then be 2 x 20GB (in Photos AND in that Finder folder)?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 27, 2015 12:53 PM in response to locuta
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    Apr 27, 2015 12:53 PM in response to locuta

    Yes, exporting creates a copy outside the Library.

  • by Neal Bridgens,Helpful

    Neal Bridgens Neal Bridgens Apr 28, 2015 10:13 AM in response to jayar
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    Apr 28, 2015 10:13 AM in response to jayar

    Just one more thing iPhoto could do that photos can't. "reveal in finder…". Used that all the time.

    Don't worry Apple I can be trusted to not overwrite the file.

  • by Neal Bridgens,

    Neal Bridgens Neal Bridgens Apr 28, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Neal Bridgens
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    Apr 28, 2015 10:14 AM in response to Neal Bridgens

    Also, I can't rename the export? What's with that?

  • by Terence Devlin,

    Terence Devlin Terence Devlin Apr 28, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Neal Bridgens
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    Apr 28, 2015 12:35 PM in response to Neal Bridgens

    You can rename when exporting and yes, you can rename after exporting.

  • by chirpie,Helpful

    chirpie chirpie May 3, 2015 8:06 PM in response to jayar
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    May 3, 2015 8:06 PM in response to jayar

    I'm a bit embarrassed at how mad I am. Is there really no way to properly reveal in finder from the app? I do all my touchups in Photoshop and I just use this app for photo sorting. With this one feature missing, Photos is in the useless category for me. It was literally the ONLY menu item I used in iPhoto. Sheesh.

  • by Neal Bridgens,

    Neal Bridgens Neal Bridgens May 3, 2015 10:17 PM in response to Terence Devlin
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    May 3, 2015 10:17 PM in response to Terence Devlin

    Decided to finally check that. No, no rename on export. As with all new apple things, it's a non-standard save dialogue. I can rename as title or sequential, but I can't just call it what I want on export.

    Makes for a lot of chasing files... Reveal was easier. I knew I was getting the file I wanted.

    I guess it's time to see if Lightroom will work for me.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 3, 2015 10:19 PM in response to chirpie
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    May 3, 2015 10:19 PM in response to chirpie
    Is there really no way to properly reveal in finder from the app?

    No.

    And in iPhoto you could have used the provided feature to edit your photo in an external editor instead of reveal in Finder.

  • by Neal Bridgens,

    Neal Bridgens Neal Bridgens May 3, 2015 10:27 PM in response to léonie
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    May 3, 2015 10:27 PM in response to léonie

    Photos is so feature reduced it's like traveling back in time.

     

    When iTunes is replaced by "Tunes" it will just be a pause/play button.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie May 3, 2015 10:33 PM in response to Neal Bridgens
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    May 3, 2015 10:33 PM in response to Neal Bridgens
    Photos is so feature reduced it's like traveling back in time.

    Photos is just in its infancy - It is the first version of a complete new, very different application, and it will develope into something useful, I'm sure. Just keep sending feedback to Apple, so the developers will see what the customers want and need from a photo app.

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